Glen Keane Draws

Glen Keane lectured at CalArts a couple weeks ago. Below is a short video of Keane drawing the Beast and explaining some of the design ideas involved in the character’s construction. If you’ve got a lot of free time, you can watch an older Glen Keane lecture on YouTube; beware though, it’s broken down into 18 parts.

I’d go further and say he’s among the greatest in the history of the medium.

I’d love to see a tome, analogous to Canemaker’s 9-old-men book, devoted to some of Disney’s current talent, including Keane, Deja, Sanders, Henn and others. Thankfully, we have magazines and blogs for the time being.